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Google Chrome - Features

2009-12-10T05:14:00.000-08:00

Interesting and cleverly made commercial for the new Google browser "Chrome". I might try it out, looks sleek and the features are impressive. this item via http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com/

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Instant messaging 'chatspeak' no danger to spelling: study

2009-09-24T04:37:00.000-07:00

Texting and instant messaging using short-forms and "chatspeak" have no effect on teens' ability to spell properly and could even provide "a little brain workout," researchers at the University of Alberta say. The small study of about 40 teenagers found that use of the "virtual dialect" of texting and instant messaging did not have any correlation with poor spelling performance. Study author Connie Varnhagen said teens who were good spellers in the classroom were also good spellers when texting. "And kids who are poor spellers in English class are poor spellers in instant messaging," said Varnhagen in a statement. The study, designed by third-year psychology students, involved about 40 students from the ages of 12 to 17. The participants saved their instant messages for a week, and were given a standardized spelling test. Student researcher Nicole Pugh said she was amazed at the number and complexity of chatspeak words she found...

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Asia 2.0: Blogs as Public Media - Call for Papers

2009-09-23T06:16:00.000-07:00

CFP: Session at ACS Crossroads Hong Kong 2010 (June, 17th-21st) http://www.crossroads2010.org/index.html Title: “Asia 2.0: Blogs as Public Media” Organizers: Younghan Cho (Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore, Singapore) Nakho Kim (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) This notice is to call for presenters for the proposed session, entitled as “Asia 2.0: Blogs as Public Media.” Papers are particularly sought around the following related themes: This panel aims at illuminating diverse ways in which people utilize blogs for spreading public news, sharing their opinions, building social networks, and mobilizing those networks for civic action, specifically focused on Asian contexts including political and economical conditions, media history and cultural values. From anonymous social protest organizers in Seoul and youth vote activists in Tokyo to crowd-journalists in Shezuan, uses of blogs often...

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Studies in Evil Media

2009-09-23T06:10:00.000-07:00

University of East London School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Cultural Studies Research present Studies in Evil Media October 7th 2009 14:00-17:00 University of East London Docklands Campus (Cyprus DLR - the station is literally at the campus) Room EB.3.19 (third floor, main building, turn left on entering main square from station) All Welcome Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths: Author of Media Ecologies) & Andrew Goffey (Middlesex University: Translator of Isabelle Stengers’ Capitalist Sorcery) Evil Media Evil Media updates Machiavelli's 'The Prince' for the era of networked digital media and corporate governance. Addressing a range of objects, practices, techniques and knowledges traditionally excluded from the purview of media studies, it explores the sophistry that is quite literally embodied by the sophisticated technologies of the knowledge economy. 'Evil' explicitly references the antagonistic ethical...

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Did You Know 4.0

2009-09-23T06:03:00.000-07:00

Fantastic video on the progression of information technology. 4.0 for 2009 - Newly Revised Edition Created by Darren Bachynski, and modified by Jared Bachynski; Globalization & Our Changing Planet. It was even adapted by Sony BMG at an executive meeting they held in Paris this year.this item via http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com/

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Lemelson Center Fellowships 2010

2009-09-23T05:59:00.000-07:00

The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center is seeking proposals for its 2010 Fellows Program, which supports projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. These include, but are not limited to, historical research and documentation projects resulting in publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, and multimedia products. The fellowship program provides access to the Smithsonian's vast artifact and archival collections, as well as the expertise of the Institution's research staff. The Center offers fellowships to scholars and professionals who are pre- or postdoctoral candidates or who have completed advanced professional training. Fellowships are awarded for a maximum of ten weeks and carry a prorated stipend. Fellows are expected to reside in the Washington,D.C. area, to participate in the Center's activities, and to make presentations on their work to colleagues at the...

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Social Media Revolution

2009-08-26T01:10:00.000-07:00

Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics. Interesting and educational video about social media and what it means in todays society. I wasn't aware of some of the facts/numbers in this video, which makes it particularly impressive to find it all congested into an informative video.this item via http://internetmarketingandmessages.blogspot.com/

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MUM 2009 –The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

2009-08-26T00:06:00.000-07:00

+++ SUBMISSIONS OPEN - PAPER DEADLINE AUG 31, 2009 +++ MUM 2009 –The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 22 – 25 November, 2009, Cambridge, United Kingdom MUM 2009 (www.mum2009.org) is organized by Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, and University of Cambridge. DEADLINE for full and short papers and tutorials is AUGUST 31, 2009. Paper submissions are accepted in electronic form through the online conference management site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MUM2009/Default.aspx Deadline for Posters and Demos, Doctoral Consortium, and Student volunteers is September 30, 2009. The poster and demo descriptions should also be submitted through the online conference site. Registration will open SEPTMEBER 25, 2009. Early bird registration ends OCTOBER 8, 2009. Previous MUM Conferences have been held in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE, with papers published in the ACM Digital Library (pending approval...

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Street Computing workshop at OZCHI 2009 - Call for Participation

2009-08-18T03:19:00.000-07:00

Street Computing workshop at OZCHI 2009 Tue 24th Nov 2009, Melbourne Call for Participation The Street Computing workshop, held in conjunction with OZCHI 2009, solicits papers discussing new research directions, early research results, works-in-progress and critical surveys of prior research work in the areas of ubiquitous computing and interaction design for urban environments. Urban spaces have unique characteristics. Typically, they are densely populated, buzzing with life twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. These traits afford many opportunities, but they also present many challenges: traffic jams, smog and pollution, stress placed on public services, and more. Computing technology, particularly the kind that can be placed in the hands of citizens, holds much promise in combating some of these challenges. Yet, computation is not merely a tool for overcoming challenges; rather, when embedded appropriately in our everyday...

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Media Interventions (CSA) - call for papers

2009-08-04T05:07:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS – MEDIA INTERVENTIONS The Media Interventions Division of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites abstracts for papers and panel proposals for the Eighth Annual Cultural Studies Association Meeting, March 18-20, 2010 in Berkeley, California. The division welcomes submissions that examine media interventions, broadly conceived, from academic and practitioner perspectives. In addition, division seeks submissions that explore the use of media to popularize academic research. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2009. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: • DIY culture and aesthetics • Local, national and transnational media reform campaigns • Indigenous media culture • Grassroots cultural production • Collaborative and community-based media projects • Youth media • Citizens’ journalism/citizen storytelling • Film, video, audio and...

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Journal of Community Informatics - New Issue Published (Vol. 5 No.1)

2009-08-04T04:55:00.000-07:00

The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue athttp://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. To subscribe to the Community Informatics Researchers elist send an email to: sympa@vancouvercommunity.net message: subscribe ciresearchers Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Vancouver CANADA and Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA http://www.communityinformatics.net gurstein@gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Vol 5, No 1 (2009) Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/28 Editorial Editorial: Building the Broadband Economy from the Bottom Up: A Community Informatics Approach to BB and Economic Development Michael Gurstein Points of View Moving Community...

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"Tourism in Text, Theory, and Practice"- Call for Papers

2009-08-04T04:47:00.000-07:00

Proposed Seminar: Tourism in Text, Theory, and Practice Eighth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association March 18-20, 2010, Berkeley, California Sponsored by the Division of Cultural Studies and Literature Seminar Description: Risk tourism. Dark tourism. War tourism. Ecotourism. Heritage tourism. Sex tourism. Medical tourism. Space tourism. Sports tourism. As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, tourism shapes economies, politics, societies, and cultures. Until now, the study of tourism has largely been the purview of the social sciences but this seminar intervenes in the discussion by bringing together literary and cultural studies to work towards an interdisciplinary model that lends equal authority to different kinds of knowledge. This seminar invites readings of both literary representations of tourism and real tourist experiences from any discipline, genre, era, or area. Potential topics include the...

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3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare [Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: New Issue Published (Vol. 2 No. 2)]

2009-08-04T04:36:00.000-07:00

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research has just published its latest issue at http://jvwresearch.org. We invite you to explore the latest in research on 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Vol. 2, No. 2 - 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare Editor's Corner Musings on the State of '3-D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare' in 2009 Maria Toro-Troconis, Maged N. Kamel Boulos Invited Articles Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education Constance M Johnson, Allison A Vorderstrasse, Ryan Shaw Peer Reviewed Research Papers The Growth and Direction of Healthcare Support Groups in Virtual Worlds John Robert Norris Development of a Virtual Reality Coping Skills Game to Prevent Post-Hospitalization Smoking Relapse in Tobacco Dependent Cancer Patients Paul Krebs, Jack Burkhalter, Shireen Lewis, Tinesha Hendrickson, Ophelia Chiu, Paul Fearn, Wendy Perchick, Jamie Ostroff Does...

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Call for Papers: Virtual Praxis II: Women's International Community in Second Life

2009-07-22T05:15:00.000-07:00

Virtual Praxis II: Women's International Community in Second Life To be held on Minerva, the teaching and research space in Second Life maintained by The Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University, November 21 and 22, 2009. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Minerva/16/14/22/ You are invited to submit an abstract for an individual 20-minute presentation or group panel discussion on an aspect of women's participation in the international Second Life community. In 2008 the first Virtual Praxis Conference studied the growing women's community of activists, artists, musicians, educators, librarians, and health care workers in Second Life. It was a wonderful opportunity to learn what others are doing and to build social networks. The conference dealt with a wide variety of Second Life experience, and many of the papers are archived here: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/collingwood7/minerva/conference08.html This year we will...

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CFP: Journal of Media Practice

2009-07-22T05:12:00.000-07:00

Journal of Media Practice ISSN: 14682753 Published by Intellect Editor: Lina Khatib, Royal Holloway, University of London Call for submissions The Journal of Media Practice is an international forum for debate on media practice, both within and outside of academia. The Journal is looking for contributions from colleagues involved in media practice around the world, whether as teachers or practitioners. The Journal invites international contributions reflecting on the media practice landscape, addressing television, radio, video art, documentary, film, screenwriting, the internet, the press, or any other form of print, audio, visual or audiovisual media. Submissions on policy, “industry” (or sites of practice), creative practice, aesthetics, pedagogy and critiques of the range of what can be called media” are welcome. In addition to academic articles, the Journal encourages the submission of: - Visual essays (images accompanied...

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Call for Competition Entries - Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award

2009-07-22T04:53:00.000-07:00

Call to participate in the 3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition September 30th -October 2nd, 2009, Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia For previous years' entries, newslist subscription, and our facebook group - check out: http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum Competition deadline: August 7th Award Sum: 7.000 Euros The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions, for example: * How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments? * What are intelligent media environments like? * What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like? A few other examples are: * Pervasive and ubiquitous games * Ambient installations * Artistic works related to ubiquitous media and computation * Business models *...

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Hooray for Horrorwood: "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and Fandom

2009-07-20T06:40:00.000-07:00

CFP: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 17-21, 2010 Call for Panel Papers: Hooray for Horrorwood: "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and Fandom Ostensibly aimed at an audience of largely male pre-teen and teenage readers, "Famous Monsters of Filmland" (FM) remains under the radar of most academics and under-recognized as a highly significant text in terms of audience studies, gender studies, canon theory, and populist conceptualizations of cinema history. The photo-heavy and fan-pleasing FM offered a bi-monthly archive of stills of classic, rare, and lost horror films, as well as news on upcoming films, profiles of actors, and behind-the-scenes features on make-up artists. FM evinced a love for, and more importantly, a sound knowledge of, genre film history. This tone was set by editor Forrest J Ackerman, who served as an avuncular, enthusiastic epistemological guide, providing readers not only with...

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OZCHI 2009 - Call for Papers

2009-07-14T00:42:00.000-07:00

Call for Short Papers, Industry Case Studies, Demos & Posters, Doctoral Consortium, and 24 Hour Design Challenge OZCHI 2009 – Design: Open 24 | 7 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) 23 – 27 November 2009, The University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.ozchi.org/ OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for research and development in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students from a wide range of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, and social scientists. The main conference will be held from Wed 25 to Fri 27 Nov 2009, and will be preceded by two days of Workshops, Tutorials and a Doctoral Consortium on...

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CfP: Making Links 2009 - Sustaining Communities in Tough Times

2009-05-20T06:11:00.000-07:00

MAKING LINKS 2009 Sustaining Communities in Tough Times 17 - 18 November 2009 University of Melbourne http://www.makinglinks.org.au/ Call for papers Two major challenges face the world today: the global economic crisis and environmental sustainability. Both are already having an impact on peoples’ lives and livelihoods. Community organisations have already expressed concern that the most vulnerable in our societies will be hardest hit. Community organisations also face the challenge of keeping their operations going in tough financial times, and at the same time trying to be part of the environmental solution, rather than part of the problem. Making Links Conference 2009 asks: how are non-profit organisations meeting these twin challenges? We are seeking presentations that address issues such as: • Technology as a tool to improve communication, increase productivity and retain staff • Disaster response /...

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Virtual Community and Popular Culture: Expertise and Authority in Fan Discourse

2009-05-20T06:02:00.000-07:00

Nottingham Guest Speaker Series Generation Net: Arts and Culture in the 21st Century University of Nottingham 'Virtual Community and Popular Culture: Expertise and Authority in Fan Discourse' Professor Chris Atton Thursday 21st May 2009, 6pm-7pm followed by refreshments Room A18 (Arts Graduate Centre) Trent Building, University of Nottingham. The third speaker in our interdisciplinary guest speaker series, Professor Chris Atton, will be speaking on Thursday 21st May. Admission is free. All are welcome. To book a place at the talk, please email Iain Smith at iainrobertsmith@gmail.com Abstract Studies of popular culture have increasingly turned to the amateur media practices of fans to understand how ordinary people make sense of their own pleasures. A primary site for this research has been the printed fanzine, a magazine written, edited and published by fans themselves. With the movement of much fan writing to the...

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Adam Greenfield at HCSNet Workshop, 13/14 July, QUT Brisbane

2009-05-19T03:34:00.000-07:00

Second Call for Papers: From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen - A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane June 19, 2009 Workshop position papers (300-500 words) due June 26, 2009 Author notifications sent July 13/14, 2009 Workshop http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943 Keynote Speaker We are pleased to announce Adam Greenfield, author of 'Everyware' and Head of Design Direction for User Interface and Services at Nokia in Helsinki, as the keynote speaker for this workshop. His talk "The city is here for you to use" will give us a preview of the ideas in his forthcoming new book. Workshop Theme This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss social and mobile technologies and how they can be studied, designed and developed further to support local...

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Extended Deadline - Summer School on Virtual World Research from July 10-19 in Bremen, Germany

2009-05-19T03:29:00.000-07:00

There's good news from the organizers from this year's Summer School "How Virtual is reality?" (http://how-virtual-is-reality.eu/) held in Bremen (Germany) from July 10 to July 19. Extended Deadline - Summer School on Virtual World Research from July 10-19 in Bremen, Germany We will accept applications until June 7th from anyone interested in doing academic reseach in Internet phenomena / Virtual Worlds. The course is mainly addressed to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students. As a cooperative effort of the University of Bremen and Jacobs-University (Bremen) th summer course will broach the issue of the relevance of new environments such as "Second Life" and "World of Warcraft" for contemporary culture and social life with a special focus on rituals and religions. Instructed by more than 10 international teachers, the participants in the Summer School will explore the interdisciplinary study of practical methods and...

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New MA programme in Digital Anthropology at University College London

2009-05-18T05:13:00.000-07:00

Application deadline: 30 June 2009 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/digital-anthropology/ New MA programme in Digital Anthropology at University College London Digital technologies have become ubiquitous. From Facebook, YouTube and Flickr to PowerPoint, Google Earth and Second Life. Museum displays migrate to the internet, family communication in the Diaspora is dominated by new media, artists work with digital films and images. Anthropology and ethnographic research is fundamental to understanding the local consequences of these innovations, and to create theories that help us acknowledge, understand and engage with them. Today's students need to become proficient with digital technologies as research and communication tools. Through combining technical skills with appreciation of social effects, students will be trained for further research and involvement in this emergent world. This MA brings together three key components in...

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Workshop with Viktor Antonov, art director of Half Life 2

2009-05-14T11:12:00.000-07:00

TRANSISTOR Workshop: Face to face with Viktor Antonov, Art director of Half Life 2 And on collaborative post production for special effects Supported by the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Commission. An exceptional opportunity to meet with international and world known experts! CIANT_International Centre for Art and New Technologies in collaboration with FAMU presents: Distributed post production techniques in the field of visual and special effects Prague and Telč (registered on UNESCO list), Czech Republic June 17-20, 2009 during the Arts and Film Festival with Viktor Antonov and be some of the first people to see images of his upcoming movie "The Prodigies", that is yet to be made public!! Learn of the newest distribution and post production techniques at Barrandov Studios one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe. Experiment in *motion capture animation* with collaborative post production techniques...

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A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK

2009-05-14T11:04:00.000-07:00

Shailey Minocha / January 2009 / Department of Computing / The Open University / Walton Hall / Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK Executive Summary The term 'social software' covers a range of software tools which allow users to interact and share data with other users, primarily via the web. Blogs, wikis, social networking websites, such as Facebook and Flickr, and social bookmarking sites, such as Delicious, are examples of some of the tools that are being used to share and collaborate in educational, social, and business contexts. The key aspect of asocial software tool is that it involves wider participation in the creation of information which is shared. This study examined the use of social software in the UK further and higher education sectors to collect evidence of the effective use of social software in enhancing student learning and...

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